Trumps Presidency 2025

[Motown Bombers]

 

[gehringer_2]

14 hours ago, romad1 said:

Stole that

No knock on the brave dedicated people who worked this project, but objectively, this mission was mostly  a reprise of re-purposed, warmed over 80's rocket tech. A broken down thespian mounting a production of Hamlet when he's 70 just to prove he's still alive. We fall back on these kinds of demonstrations whenever national confidence wanes. I wonder if they make any difference,

Edited 2 hours ago by gehringer_2

[oblong]

I lack confidence in the American people to do the right thing when it really counts. They failed us in ‘16, ‘18, ‘22, and ‘24 despite all the handwringing from th Lincoln project and bulwark and podcasters.  Remember when Graham and Cruz and Collins were going to lose?
 

Dobbs was supposed to end the GOP.  That’s ancient history. Yes it’s cute when an R district goes from +47 to + 18 or a Democrat wins dog catcher in Montana.  Until the House and Senate flips and then the White House goes D I’m not getting excited. This country elected Trump again after ‘16 and Jan 6.  It’s who we are.  It wasn’t an outlier. We are at the mercy of idiots. 

[guy incognito]

As Churchill famously observed, “You can always count upon Americans to do the wrong thing, each and every day of the year and twice on Sundays. The ______g morons.”

 

13 minutes ago, oblong said:

I lack confidence in the American people to do the right thing when it really counts. They failed us in ‘16, ‘18, ‘22, and ‘24 despite all the handwringing from th Lincoln project and bulwark and podcasters.  Remember when Graham and Cruz and Collins were going to lose?
 

Dobbs was supposed to end the GOP.  That’s ancient history. Yes it’s cute when an R district goes from +47 to + 18 or a Democrat wins dog catcher in Montana.  Until the House and Senate flips and then the White House goes D I’m not getting excited. This country elected Trump again after ‘16 and Jan 6.  It’s who we are.  It wasn’t an outlier. We are at the mercy of idiots. 

 

[mtutiger]

18 minutes ago, oblong said:

I lack confidence in the American people to do the right thing when it really counts. They failed us in ‘16, ‘18, ‘22, and ‘24 despite all the handwringing from th Lincoln project and bulwark and podcasters.  Remember when Graham and Cruz and Collins were going to lose?
 

Dobbs was supposed to end the GOP.  That’s ancient history. Yes it’s cute when an R district goes from +47 to + 18 or a Democrat wins dog catcher in Montana.  Until the House and Senate flips and then the White House goes D I’m not getting excited. This country elected Trump again after ‘16 and Jan 6.  It’s who we are.  It wasn’t an outlier. We are at the mercy of idiots. 

Definitely not suggesting that I trust the American people... Nor am I excited quite frankly about any of this. There's a reason you see less of me on this board and consuming political media at this point in time

But also stepping back from all of that, the Hungarian election shows that politics does matter and that change can happen. And the population that made it happen didn't do it by acting like a bunch of cold hearted cynics who were constantly paralyzed by fear, they did it by putting in the work

We really could learn from that collectively

Edited 1 hour ago by mtutiger